00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:26 Prayer for the Youth Retreat

03:08 Genesis 35: Jacob's Covenant Renewal

07:38 Genesis 36: The Descendants of Esau

09:43 Genesis 37: The Story of Joseph Begins

15:28 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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I am so low as a right now.

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In fact, as I record this right.

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As I record this, uh, our students

and their leaders and pastor, rod.

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Our pilot and cars, and they're

driving down to blooming Grove

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for the winter revival edition.

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Um, the, the winter.

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Uh, youth retreat.

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So, uh, pray for them.

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Pray.

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Uh, right now.

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You're listening to this.

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I would even encourage you, maybe

press pause on this and stop and

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pray for this weekend for them.

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It's going to be Friday

as you're hearing this.

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So this is day two for them technically

their first full day, though.

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And pastor rod has some great

messages, great teaching prepared

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on students in technology.

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And that is such an evergreen subject

and topic as technology has a.

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Larger and larger presence and

footprint in our lives and certainly

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in the lives of our young people.

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So he's going to be

helping them understand.

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Uh, biblically, how do we approach this?

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What do we do with this technology

is not going to go away.

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And so we can say, man, I wish.

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It wasn't this way.

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I wish we didn't have this.

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I wish we didn't have that.

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And yet the reality is it's it's

not going away anytime soon.

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And so as Christians, we

need to learn to live.

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With technology in such a way

that we are good stewards of it,

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that technology doesn't master us.

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It doesn't enslave us, but

that we use it as a tool.

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Or a resource, uh, to

better serve the Lord.

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And so that's some of the focus this

weekend that pastor rod is going to

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be driving home with the students,

a couple of things to pray for, uh,

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pray for their time in small groups.

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Uh, pray that the discussions

will be profitable and helpful.

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Pray for the attention

span of the students.

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Especially as they're coming in

on Saturday and the weekend we'll

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have caught up to them by then.

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They're going to be tired, pray that

they will focus, that they will pay

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attention, that they will listen.

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Well, Uh, to what pastor rod

has to say from the word of God.

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Uh, pray that these things are,

are clear from the scriptures as

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pastor rod teaches on this subject.

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Uh, obviously you're not going to

find a Paul saying, this is how you

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should use your phone anywhere in the

Bible, but the principles are there.

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So pray that the connections are

easily made and that the students

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see those connections from scripture.

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And pray for them to respond

and to apply what they learn.

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Not just to let this be a weekend where

they come home saying, yeah, it was fun.

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And we had a good time with

friends and the content was good.

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And I feel like I know more, but,

but pray that they would actually

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act on what they hear and act on

what they learned this weekend.

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And then.

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Uh, last thing I would encourage

you to pray for is not all of

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these students that are going on

this retreat are, are believers.

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And so pray that pastor rod will

be able to take a subject like

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how we interact with technology

and connect it to the gospel.

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I know that's on his heart this weekend.

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And so pray that he would be able to make

that connection smoothly and that it would

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be evident in the hearing of the students

in that those that are not yet saved.

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I would even be able to take a retreat

on something like how to engage

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technology, you know, a proper way.

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And, uh, perhaps come to faith as

a result of this weekend's retreat.

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So those are some things to be

praying for even again right now,

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push, pause on this, go and pray.

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Pray for them.

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Pray for pastor, rod, pray for the

leaders, pray for energy, pray for safety,

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all the things you'd normally pray for,

and then pray for those points as well.

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And then come back in

and we'll pick back up.

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In fact, we'll do that right

now with Genesis 35 through 37.

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Uh, Genesis 35, 30, 37.

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We are continuing the

story obviously of Jacob.

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And yet there's a couple other

players that come into the scene

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here in these chapters, but,

uh, 35 verse first 15 verses of

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chapter 35, all about confirmation.

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Jacob is told to go to Bethel and

you'll remember Bethel is the place

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where God at first appeared to him

with the ladder and the angels.

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Uh, Ascending and descending

on the ladder there.

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And so they're back there.

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He goes back to Bethel and this time

God appears to him again and confirms

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the promises of the Abrahamic covenant.

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And again, the changing of his name from

Jacob to Israel, Israel then confirms

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that yes, Bethel is named appropriately.

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Jacob does Israel, Jacob one in the same

person, uh, Israel, Jacob now confirms

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that Bethel is indeed named appropriately

for this was the second time that God

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revealed himself to him in that place.

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Bethel meaning.

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Again, Uh, the house of God.

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And so the covenant renewal here with

Jacob, the reconfirmation of things,

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again, the name changes emphasized again,

even the, the, uh, the commandments,

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the creation mandate that shows up

again, be fruitful and multiply.

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Uh, that has to do more with his future

descendants than with his own children.

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And so there's the creation mandate

be fruitful and multiply, but this is

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more about the nation that's going to

come from Jacob than it is his own.

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Offspring there.

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And, uh, and so first 15

verses re reaffirmation confirm

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confirmation confirming that indeed.

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Uh, the covenant is in place

that, that God had chosen.

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Jacob chosen Israel, and his

name was now going to be Israel,

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which remember means God fights.

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And God was going to continue to

fight on behalf of his people and

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do great things through the nation.

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Chapter 35 then verses 16 through 29.

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In this section, uh, Rachel

and Isaac, both dime.

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And so that this is a bit of a, a low

point, although there's a silver lining.

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Even in the death of Rachel

in that, uh, Benjamin is born.

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So as Rachel is dying, she is at the

same time giving birth to Benjamin and.

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So Benjamin is, is born and Jacob calls

him Benjamin, even though Rachel wanted

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to call him Ben Oni, uh, Ben Oni was

a name that meant if you look at the

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footnote there, the ESV son of my sorrow

or son of my strength either way, but.

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Uh, Jacob, his father instead.

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Chooses to call him Benjamin

son of the right hand, the right

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hand being the position of honor.

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And so, uh, Benjamin is a.

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As a special child to,

to Isaac or to Isaac, to.

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Israel to, to Jacob.

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And we're going to see that later

on, um, in the story of Joseph,

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but Benjamin is the final son.

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Uh, that Jacob's slash Israel

has borne to him by Rachel

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his beloved wife, uh, Rachel's

children that she herself born to.

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Uh, to Israel would have been, uh,

Joseph first and then Benjamin second.

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And so Rachel dies and then the other

one that dies in this section is Isaac.

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Uh, Jacob's dad.

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He dies.

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And he dies, not tragically in a

situation prematurely, as it appears

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that Rachel had, but he dies of old

age and he dies at 180 years old.

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Something else that happens in

this section, that's probably

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worth just pointing out here.

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You've got a, just a strange.

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Interaction here where

Ruben goes off in and.

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Um, Is is with bill.

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Hi, if I can just keep it again.

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PG here with bill hall, his

father's concubine, and this is a

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strange scene and you might think,

okay, what what's going on here?

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Uh, one commentator suggested this

and I think it's, it's possible.

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That, uh, bill ha as Rachel's, um, maid

servant, uh, she would have been next

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in line perhaps as the favored wife in.

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Uh, in, in Israel's.

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Uh, perspective here.

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So you remember Israel, Jacob

loved Rachel more than Leah.

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Well, Rubin, who does this act?

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This a moral act, this wrong act.

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He was the son of Leah.

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And so he possibly could be looking out

for his mom by doing this to try to make

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sure that bill hall was not going to take.

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Rachel's places, the favored wife,

because of her connection there

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to Rachel, maybe that's a little

bit of a stretch either way.

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It's not a good situation.

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It's not a good thing that

happens, but it does happen.

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It is recorded here.

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That's something that, that Ruben does.

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And.

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And again, I think we're starting to

see why Reuben and Simeon are both,

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uh, passed over in terms of the, the,

the promise line here and the lineage

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that, that Jude is really going to

be the one that, that, and not the

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Judah is great in and of himself, but.

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Uh, certainly these are not

great moves by Rubin here.

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And then we'll see Simeon later on.

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Chapter 36 then as we get into

this, this provides a deep dive.

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For us into something that I

know you've been curious about,

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and that is Esau's descendants.

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I know you've been sitting here saying

yes, but what about the children of ISA?

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I want to know all about them.

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Well, if that's you.

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Uh, you are unique and

here's your chapter.

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Chapter 36 is the deep dive

of the descendants of Esau.

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But there are a couple of things

to take note of here, even as we

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go through this and we think to

ourselves, okay, this is a lot of names.

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And what does this mean?

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Oh, holy Bama.

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Uh, I think that verse five, who

is holy Bama and At Cora, there's

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a lot of names here and I don't

know what this is all about.

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Couple things to note.

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Look at verse eight, verse

eight is significant.

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So Esau settled in the

hill country of sear.

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And then it says Esau is Edam.

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Okay.

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Esau settled in the hill country

of Sierra Esau is eat them.

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Eat them should be a name that rings

a bell for you because later on in the

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new Testament or in the old Testament,

rather, we are going to encounter a

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lot to do with the Edomites and the

Edomites are not going to be necessarily.

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Pro or friendly to Israel.

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Now we've heard that a lot.

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Haven't we, this descendant had

these, this people, the Amalekites.

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The Amorites.

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All these EITs that are coming out

of all of these offspring of other of

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other people loosely connected to the

central figures in the Bible here.

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Again, we see a situation

where that's the case.

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Aesop becomes the father of

the Edomites verse eight.

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The Edomites are going to be

another thorn in Israel side.

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Uh, you'll look at verse 12.

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Talk about that again.

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Esau's grandson is amyloid now.

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Amylah is going to become

the father of the Amalekites.

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The Amalekites are going to be

another people group that cause

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problems for Israel down the road.

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And then if you jump all the

way down to Genesis 36 31.

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Uh, we find out that there are Kings

that come from Edam long before

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there are any Kings that come from.

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Uh, Israel.

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So Esau his line produces Kings

before Jacob's line produces Kings.

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That's just something that's of note here.

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Now these are not Kings.

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Uh, in terms of being

Kings of God's people.

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But they are foreign Kings they're

pagan Kings they're Gentile Kings

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that end up ruling in the land.

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Even long before any of the

Israelite Kings come to the throne.

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So there you go.

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Eastlands descendants in chapter 36.

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All right.

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Chapter 37, we get to one of the

brighter spots in the Genesis account.

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And that is the life of Joseph.

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Uh, the life of Joseph and

yet the life of Joseph doesn't

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necessarily start out spectacularly.

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Uh, Joseph comes on the scene and.

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Uh, Joseph is the loved son of Israel in.

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Again, why?

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Because he was born in the first born of

Rachel and Rachel was the beloved wife.

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And so Joseph had a special spot.

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In Israel and Jacobs, a purview in,

in his underwear, in his eye, he loved

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Joseph and there was a unique love

for him and probably favored him.

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Uh, wrongfully so and recognize him, gave

him a coat of many colors and it provoked

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jealousy in the life of his brothers.

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And Joseph doesn't do a whole

lot to help himself out here

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in the opening of chapter 37.

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He begins to tell his brothers about,

Hey, I had a couple of dreams here.

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Let me share my dreams with you.

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And.

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Uh, you know, these

dreams are dreams that.

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We'll come to fruition.

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We're going to see that down

the road as we study the life

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in the account of Joseph, but.

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Probably would have been the better part

of wisdom for Joseph not to open up an

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and talk about this with his brothers,

not to say, Hey, I had this dream and

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you guys were all bowing down to me.

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How cool is that?

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And then.

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He even has another dream that

he tells about his father and.

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Here's the, the dream that I had,

uh, that, you know, the sun and

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the stars and everything else that

they bowed down to me as well.

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And it even leads his father

to rebuke him in verse 10.

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What is this dream that you have dreamed?

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Shall I?

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And your mother and your brothers

and deed come and bow ourselves

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to you before the ground.

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And so Jacob there rebukes him

now, here's, what's interesting.

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And this may raise some questions

and, and it gets a little bit messy.

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And sometimes this is where the

chronology of things in Genesis caused

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us to scratch our heads a little bit.

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Uh, Jacob or Israel here

references the mother of Joseph.

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Well, we just read.

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In chapter 35, where Israel's

wife, Rachel, who was the

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mother of Joseph has, has died.

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And so is this backing up?

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Is this, uh, predating that, or is

this just a general reference, maybe?

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Uh it's as though bill hall or Leah became

his adopted mother at this point in.

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And was standing in as

the figurehead there.

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That's another suggestion here,

or is this chronologically been

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arranged in some different way?

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Uh, to show up at the end of the book

here as, as a point of emphasis of God's

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sovereign protection and preservation of

his people through the life of Joseph.

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I don't know that we can land

securely there, but it is interesting

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when we know the detail like that.

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When he says show I and your mother

and your brothers indeed come

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and bow ourselves down to you.

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Well, Who is the mother there?

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Is it Rachel again?

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Is this chronologically

out of order or is this.

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Leah or bill hot or somebody that

was an adopted mother for Joseph.

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We don't know, but.

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Joseph doesn't necessarily start well

here because, uh, they, it says there in

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verse 11, his brothers are jealous of him,

but his father kept the saying in mine.

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So he's provoking things.

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And that's where the rest of the chapter

dues verses 12 through 36 familiar story.

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If you grew up in the church, you saw

this acted out on the felt boards, or you

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saw it acted out in VeggieTales maybe.

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I don't know if VeggieTales

has one on this.

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Maybe it does, but.

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Um, if it does, then, then

you guys will I'm sure.

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Let me know.

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Otherwise.

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They should have, right.

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This would have been an interesting one

anyways, that you've got the Joseph's

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brothers hatching, a plot to kill him.

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And that's what they want to do initially.

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But they eventually decide with some

dissuasion actually from Rubin of

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all people, Ruben, the guy that was

just not doing great things here.

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He.

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Is trying to kind of move to, to

spare his brother and whatever,

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whatever his motives were.

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Maybe he wanted to be

recognized by his dad more.

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I don't know if his motives were entirely

pure, but God's going to use him at

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least to slow the roll of the brothers

that they're not going to kill Joseph

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right away eventually decide that,

that they can profit by his demise

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rather than, than just killing him.

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And so what they're going to do

is they're going to sell them into

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a traveling group of notice here.

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Ishmaelites Ishmaelites.

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And so here you have Isaac

and Ishmael, you have that.

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Conflict coming back to the surface.

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Again, here's some descendants of Ishmael.

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And they are there and they're going

to take Joseph and they're going to

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take them down to Egypt where they're

going to sell them to Pottipher.

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And we're going to see that this

is all part of God's plan, but

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right now it's messy right now.

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It is.

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It is, it is heavy and is not good.

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And, you know, that's just

a reminder to us that.

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Family.

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And here's family right on the,

the, the center stage and scripture

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here, family can get messy.

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Family can be difficult.

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And some of you listening to

this, know this all too well,

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and your family has been.

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Hurt by sin against one another.

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Your family has been hurt by

infighting and conflict and jealousy

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and everything else and betrayal.

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And here you have a

situation where you're in.

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This is one of the greatest acts of

betrayal that we can conceive of.

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They, they took him,

they held him hostage.

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They eventually sell him.

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To a, uh, slavery basically,

and, and go back and tell his

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dad, Hey, he's, he's dead.

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Look, this coat of his has been, uh, it

has evidence of his blood over it, though.

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It was dipped in, in animal blood.

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And, and yet what's happening.

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E all throughout this, God is

sovereign all throughout this.

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God is working.

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He's orchestrating these events now.

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The acts that took place, the

sinful actions were still sinful.

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They were wrong.

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They were evil.

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They were wicked.

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And yet God was ordaining

and sovereign over all of it.

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Uh, such that Joseph would end up where

he's going to end up notice at the end

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of the chapter, he ends up in Egypt and

that's going to be crucial to how God

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is going to save and deliver his people.

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And you know what it's even

that the very earliest.

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Echoes of, of the building

cadence, that's going to climax

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in the Exodus of God's people.

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And then later on that concept of

the Exodus is going to serve as

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the, the template as the type of the

greater Exodus that is going to be.

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Worked for us at the cross that we are

going to be delivered, not from slavery

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in Egypt, but slavery from our own sin.

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So this is the very beginning of this,

this infighting in the family, and

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God is going to use this in fighting.

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T to turn into something that

is much bigger than any of

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them could have imagined.

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And it's all his sovereignty at

work in the background, which

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is super comforting for us.

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Let me pray for us.

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And then we will be done with this

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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We thank you for our students

right now, as they're on the way

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down as I'm recording this to

their retreat, we pray for safety.

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And just an awesome weekend.

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I pray for pastor, rod for.

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Uh, just energy to be able to, to lead

well this weekend and to preach well this

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weekend and that these messages would

be transformative for these students.

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Even for some, perhaps eternally

transformative for them.

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And so we ask that you would just.

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Uh, put your, your kind hand of

favor upon our students and our

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leaders as they're away from us.

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Uh, just through Saturday and that

we would hear great reports that even

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Sunday morning from the weekend, we

thank you for this opportunity for them.

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We thank you for your word.

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And we thank you for this

text that we just read.

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And we just walked through.

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And how you are always, always in control

over everything, even despite what

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it might look like to us at the time.

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And so we thank you for this reality.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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